Blazing Saddles

Theatrical Release Date: 2013 05 15 (USA - Rerelease) / 1974 02 07 (USA)

UPC: 012569828384

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor]

Summary: Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: ccAdditional scenes
Scene-specific commentary by Mel Brooks
2 documentaries: Back in the Saddle, Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (excerpt)
Black Bart: 1975 pilot episode of the proposed TV series spinoff
Theatrical trailer

Blazing Saddles

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 09/05/2006

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 93 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Rebecca Flint Marx

Mel Brooks at his ribald, tasteless best, Blazing Saddles stands out as one of the all-time great film spoofs. Sparing no one from his outrageous brand of humor, Brooks proved he was an egalitarian when it came to making fun of people, regardless of skin color or religious persuasion: where blacks may come off as stereotypical, whites are seen as just plain stupid and ignorant. Beyond its over-the-top humor and genre revision of the Western, Blazing Saddles boasts some great performances, with Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder, and Slim Pickens doing some of the best work of their careers. It also features a number of scenes that have elevated the film into the realm of the comedy classic, perhaps most infamously the one involving beans, a campfire, and the most gratuitous display of flatulence ever to cloud a movie screen. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

Cast and Crew: George Furth  Actor 
Don Megowan  Actor 
Richard Collier  Actor 
Dom DeLuise  Actor 
John Hillerman  Actor 
Burton Gilliam  Actor 
Charles McGregor  Actor 
Liam Dunn  Actor 
Robyn Hilton  Actor 
Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr.  Actor 
Carol Arthur  Actor 
Darrell Sandeen  Actor 
Andrew Bergman  Screenwriter 
Mel Brooks  Director 
Mel Brooks  Screenwriter 
Michael Hertzberg  Producer 
John Morris  Composer (Music Score) 
Richard Pryor  Screenwriter 
Norman Steinberg  Screenwriter 
Alan Uger  Screenwriter 
Peter W. Wooley  Producer 
Cleavon Little  Actor 
Gene Wilder  Actor 
Slim Pickens  Actor 
Harvey Korman  Actor 
David Huddleston  Actor 
Mel Brooks  Actor 
Mel Brooks  Actor 
Alex Karras  Actor 
Madeline Kahn  Actor 

Country: USA